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name: speak-observability description: 'Monitor Speak API health, assessment latency, session metrics, and pronunciation score distributions.

Use when implementing observability,

or managing Speak language learning platform operations.

Trigger with phrases like "speak observability", "speak observability".

' allowed-tools: Read, Write, Edit, Bash(npm:), Bash(curl:), Grep version: 1.14.0 license: MIT author: Jeremy Longshore jeremy@intentsolutions.io tags:

• saas
• speak
• api compatibility: Designed for Claude Code

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Speak Observability

Overview

Monitor Speak API health, assessment latency, session metrics, and pronunciation score distributions.

Prerequisites

• Completed speak-install-auth setup
• Valid API credentials configured
• Understanding of Speak API patterns

Instructions

Step 1: Configuration

Configure observability for your Speak integration. Speak uses OpenAI's GPT-4o for AI tutoring and Whisper for speech recognition.

// speak_observability_config.ts
const config = {
  apiKey: process.env.SPEAK_API_KEY!,
  appId: process.env.SPEAK_APP_ID!,
  environment: process.env.NODE_ENV || 'development',
};

Step 2: Implementation

// Core implementation for speak observability
import { SpeakClient } from '@speak/language-sdk';

const client = new SpeakClient(config);

// Production-ready implementation
async function setup() {
  const health = await client.health.check();
  console.log("Status:", health.status);
  return health;
}

Step 3: Verification

curl -sf -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPEAK_API_KEY" https://api.speak.com/v1/health | jq .

Output

• Speak Observability configured and verified
• Production-ready Speak integration
• Error handling and monitoring in place

Error Handling

Error	Cause	Solution
401 Unauthorized	Invalid API key	Verify SPEAK_API_KEY
429 Rate Limited	Too many requests	Implement backoff
Connection timeout	Network issue	Check connectivity to api.speak.com
Audio format error	Wrong codec	Convert to WAV 16kHz mono

Resources

• Speak Website
• OpenAI Realtime API
• Speak GPT-4 Blog

Next Steps

For production checklist, see speak-prod-checklist.

Examples

Basic: Apply observability with default settings for a standard Speak integration.

Production: Configure with monitoring, alerting, and team-specific language learning requirements.